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Don’t they though? They have (slim) majorities in both chambers, can’t they push this through if they really wanted?
They could if they can whip enough republicans to change the filibuster rules, or just get vance to preside over the senate and to ignore the parliamentarian. They never did that because "norms and traditions".
But this party that's ignoring the constitution for the past few months... and somehow "norms and traditions" suddenly matters now... 🧐
Nah mate, the bill needs 60 votes to pass the Senate
60 votes are not required. That's for cloture to end a filibuster.
The filibuster is not in the constitution nor a law, its merely a rule that can be changed at any time and the rule change itself cannot be filibustered. vance could also preside over the senate and ignore the parliamentarian.
That would require them to actually communicate with Dems, which they refuse to do.
If they wanted to pass this they can change the rules which only requires a simple majority. They want to keep the current rules because it allows them to shut down the Dems when they are in power and Reps are fine with the government being shut down since their goal is to gut it anyway.
There is no reason for Reps to change the status quo, because this is what they want.